Jack Nicholson Quotes
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.
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I wrote my first book when I was 15 years old. And my second book '1,2,3 Publish Me!' shows everyone how writing a book is done in just the three secret editing levels I discovered!
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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I do a lot of visualisations and meditation and a lot of hippie stuff.
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I think I'm a very intuitive actress.
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Jazz is progressive, and it's alive.
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I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.
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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.
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I don't want to be a poster child for cancer.
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There's nothing interesting about seeing our characters for an hour and a half do some flashy flying in the sky and beating up on some buildings. It's boring, and people don't want that anymore. They want character, and they want story.
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Is your remarkably sexist drivel intentional, or just some horrible mistake?
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I try to get the best performance an actor can give.
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Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment.
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They've been stepping on my toes for years. It's just a reason to get new boots.
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However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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In history people dressed much better than we do today.
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O let the organ, many-voiced, sing boldly, O let it roar like spring's first thunderstorm! My half-closed eyes over your young bride's shoulder Will meet your eyes just once and then no more.
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If living by these sets of morals and principles and wanting to help better my land, better my country, my community, my team, my environment and helping the next person help themselves, if that's considered crazy, then I'm a crazy.
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I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.
